Born !! Died !! Name !! Famous For
March 31, 1727 || Sir Isaac Newton || the Scientific Revolution
|| Stephen William Hawking || Gravitational singularity and black hole radiation
April 19, 1882 || Charles Robert Darwin || Evolution
January 8, 1642 || Galileo Galilei || the New Science
March 27, 1968 || Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin || First human in space
April 18, 1955 || Albert Einstein || Relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics
February 15, 1988 || Richard Phillips Feynman || Quantum mechanics and electrodynamics
February 24, 2006 || Octavia Estelle Butler || Earthseed in the Parables series
August 25, 2012 || Neil Alden Armstrong || First person to walk on the Moon
|| Neil deGrasse Tyson || Science communicator
November 18, 1962 || Neils Bohr || Atomic structure and quantum theory
December 20, 1996 || Carl Edward Sagan || Science communicator
September 28, 1895 || Louis Pasteur || the Germ Theory of Disease